The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

268 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. V.
roots of unrighteousness will be cut off and the sinners will
be destroyed by the sword (and the roots) will be cut off from
blasphemers in every place, and those who devise oppression
and those who commit blasphemy will perish by the edge of
the sword.] t 2. And after that there will be another week,
the eighth, that of righteousness, and a sword will be given
to it that judgment and righteousness may be executed on
those who commit oppression, and sinners will be delivered
into the hands of the righteous. 13. And at its close they
will acquire houses through their righteousness, and the house
of the Great King will be built in glory for ever more. 14.
And after that in the ninth week the righteous judgment will
XST V J*'C(D. In every place. ' Place ' wanting in G. Those
who devise oppression and those who commit blasphemy.
G reads 'those who devise and those who commit blasphemy.'
13. The house of the Great King will be built in glory. So G M
(ln-flrft^. Other MSS. ' a house will be built to the glory of the
17 originally stood after xciii. i-io.
As for this verse, we must regard
it as an interpolation added by the
final editor in order to introduce
vv. 12-19 which he had torn from
their original context. This verse is
wholly out of place here. Judgment
has already been consummated, all
evil works destroyed, and all the
wicked handed over to a judgment of
fire (vv. 7-9). In ver. 10 the Resurrection
ensues and judgment is now
over. But in ver. 1 1 all this is ignored
and a moral chaos is represented as
still existing—a moral chaos of exactly
the same nature as existed before the
judgment of vv. 7-9. Moreover,
the period of the Sword—man's part
in the final judgment— precedes the
Resurrection : cf. xc. 19 ; xci. 1 2. The
Resurrection follows upon the destruc-
tion of all evil and the final judgment,
c. 4, 5. Finally, this verse seems
modelled partly on vv. 7 and 8, and
partly on ver. 1 2,the expressions about
blasphemers being drawn from ver. 7,
the phrase 'roots of unrighteousness
will be cut off' from ver. 8, and the
reference to the Sword from ver. 12.
12-19. These verses giving an account
of the first three weeks of the world's
history should be read after xciii. I-
10 (see p. 260), the account of the
first seven weeks. 12. The eighth
week sees the establishment of the
Messianic kingdom. It likewise forms
the first act of the final judgment
for it is the period of the Sword ; cf
xc. 19; and the wicked are given
into the hands of the righteous ; cf.
xcv. 7 ; xcvi. 1 ; xcviii. 12 ; xcix. 4, 6 ;
also xxxviii. 5. 13. On the period
of strife will follow that of rest and
quiet possession of the earth ; cf. Is.
lx. 21, 22; lxv. 20-23. The house
of the Great King : see Crit. Note.
This means first of all the Temple, and
in the next place Jerusalem. 14.
This verse is difficult. The ninth
week, as Din. supposes, may mean